Elected

Fame in its wisdom is unpredictable, and when it functions by election it is sometimes incomprehensible--at least people professed to believe so last week. For the result of the election to the Hall of Fame* of New York University was announced. Two celebrities were chosen to decorate with their carved likeness the colonnade of Fame upon the Heights: Edwin Booth, actor, and John Paul Jones, naval officer.

The method of election to the Hall of Fame is as follows: the public is privileged to suggest to the Council of New York University the names of celebrities dead 25 years or more. Every five years the University Senate considers the names submitted.

Every name which is seconded by a member goes to a Nominating Committee which selects by majority vote the names to be sent to the electorate--a body of about 100 members from every state and several professions. The electorate makes its choice by a two-thirds vote. Afterwards the University Senate confirms the election.

The vote of the electorate (announced last week) was as follows:

Edwin Booth 85

John P. Jones 68

John Jay 59

Samuel Adams 68

Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson 53

Matthew Maury 52

Benjamin Rush 50

Noah Webster 50

Philip H. Sheridan 48

Walt Whitman 44

William Penn 44

George R. Clark 39

Nathaniel Greene 38

John S. Copley 36

Cyrus W. Field 34

William Lloyd Garrison 32

Horace Bushnell 27

Dorothea L. Dix 27

Adoniram Judson 27

Henry H. Richardson 26

Sidney Lanier 26

Benjamin Thompson 24

Henry D. Thoreau 21

Wendell Phillips 19

Charles Bulfinch 15

Paul Revere 15

James Otis 9

Everyone according to his preferences frowned at the misarrangement of this list.

*There are now 63 names honored in the Hall of Fame, including not only George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, but James Kent, Asa Gray, Mary Lyon, Maria Mitchell, James B. Bads, William T. G. Morton, Alice Freeman Palmer.